Construction of the dietary support system for the community dwelling elderly people in the community-based integrated care system.

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780310
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kanagawa University of Human Services
• Principal Investigator: GOMI Ikuko 神奈川県立保健福祉大学, 保健福祉学部, 准教授 (80363852)
• Research Collaborator: TOBA Asahi ; TAMURA Jun ; NARITA Shinichi ; SAIDA shoko
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 地域在住高齢者 / 食生活 / 人づきあい / おすそわけ / Webシステム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed “Dietary life Support Navi” as a Web system to support the maintenance of an independent dietary life for the community dwelling elderly people. New dietary check index to find the small anxiety instead of detection the risk of malnutrition is required. We adopted the 6 check items including “sharing foods with neighbors” as mutual help and “dependable person if the need arises” as social relationship which are statistic significantly related to food intake variety, based on the data collected from the 756 elderly people dwelling community. It is necessary the intermediary role that connects the small anxiety of the elderly and subsequent care or local resources depending on the need, as well as cooperation of each services in the community, for the construction of the dietary life support network as part of Community-based integrated care systems.

Free Research Field

栄養ケア・マネジメント、栄養教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

高齢者の自立した食生活の支援は、低栄養予防と厳密には異なる点に本研究は注目した。地域包括ケアシステムは地域の現状をふまえて構築するとされており、本研究が地域高齢者を対象に実施した調査結果をもとに食生活チェック項目を開発したことは、社会実装的な意義があると言える。特に、地域包括ケアシステムにおいてキーとされる人づきあいや互助の要素が自立した食生活に関連することが明らかになったことは注目に値する結果と言える。食生活サポートナビは、フレイルチェックなど他の介護予防スクリーニングとあわせて、今後、活用が期待される。